AXIOS January 17, 2026
OpenAI’s ChatGPT previewed the future with its chatbot release in late 2022. Anthropic’s latest Claude AI takes you there.
Why it matters: Claude Opus 4.5 — which powers Anthropic’s agent tools, Claude Code for developers and the newly released Cowork — lets anyone quickly turn an idea into a functioning program or app, using plain English.
In eight hours, Jim built four apps on his phone — all fully functioning, all beautifully designed and intuitive. “My mind is officially blown in a way it never has been before,” he texted Mike on Thursday.
- We’ve been building products and companies for 20 years. Any of those apps would have taken multiple people and many weeks to hit this level of...
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